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The Practices of Happiness: Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Atherton, John (Ed.); Graham, Elaine L. (Ed.); Steedman, Ian (Ed.) Book — Published Version The Practices of Happiness: Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Provided in Cooperation with: Taylor & Francis Group Suggested Citation: Atherton, John (Ed.); Graham, Elaine L. (Ed.); Steedman, Ian (Ed.) (2010) : The Practices of Happiness: Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing, Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, ISBN 978-0-203-84690-2, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203846902 This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/181973 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ www.econstor.eu The Practices of Happiness There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported wellbeing and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within the humanities and social sciences is increasingly concerned to chart not only the underlying trends in recorded levels of happiness, but to consider what factors, if any, contribute to positive and sustainable experiences of well­ being and quality of life. Increasingly, such research is focusing on the importance of values and beliefs in human satisfaction or quality of life; but the specific contribution of religion to these trends is relatively under­ examined. This unique collection of essays seeks to rectify that omission, by identifying the nature and role of the religious contribu­ tion to wellbeing. A unique collection of nineteen leading scholars from the field of economics, psychol­ ogy, public theology and social policy have been brought together in this volume to explore the religious contribution to the debate about happiness and wellbeing. These essays explore the religious dimensions to a number of key features of wellbeing, includ­ ing marriage, crime and rehabilitation, work, inequality, mental health, environment, par­ ticipation, institutional theory, business and trade. They engage particularly closely with current trends in economics in identifying alternative models of economic growth which focus on its qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions. This distinctive volume brings to public notice the nature and role of religion’s contri­ bution to wellbeing, including new ways of measurement and evaluation. As such, it repre­ sents a valuable and unprecedented resource for the development of a broad-­based religious contribution to the field. It will be of particular relevance for those who are con­ cerned about the continuing debate about personal and societal wellbeing, as well as those who are interested in the continuing significance of religion for the future of public policy. John Atherton is Canon Theologian Emeritus of Manchester Cathedral and Honorary Research Fellow of the William Temple Foundation and of Manchester University, UK, with doctorates from Manchester and Uppsala Universities. His research and publishing interests have increasingly focused on the relationship between political economy and religion. Elaine Graham is Grosvenor Research Professor of Practical Theology at the University of Chester, UK, and was until October 2009 the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester, UK. Ian Steedman has been Professor of Economics at Manchester University and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has a longstanding involvement in microeconomic theory, the history of economic thought and in the intersections among economics, ethics and social thought. 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